bagel, lox, golem talks
A downloadable game
Bubbie Blumenthal has a leaky roof again. The leviathan in the river keeps lying its head on the thatch to sleep. Rebbe Ezra has instructed his golem to scare the thing off, to no avail. It’s a stubborn beast, even if it does seem to have a soft spot for the schoolchildren who feed it latkes on the way back from learning Talmud.
All you know is that you’ll need a new notebook soon with how eager all the old zaydes are to chat your ear off after a little post-Shabbos wine. One glass in, and every one of them claims a dybbuk encounter that week. Well, it’s good material. You’ll figure out how true it is after it goes in your field notes!
Bagel, Lox, Golem Talks is a solo-journaling game where you travel to a magical Jewish shtetl in order to learn more about the community and write an ethnography on them.
Pull cards to ask questions of the residents, roll dice to see how well interactions go, and get to know a host of colorful characters from young mensches, to golems, to nephilim, to the community rabbi. Unlock 12 different locations and gain levels in friendship and familiarity with the community as you document more and more in your field notes.
You'll need: A d20, d12, and d8, and a deck of playing cards
BLGT is a hack of For Truth's Sake by h. moon
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OKKAY BUT IM STUDYING ANTROPOLOGY AND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH THIS IFPWEIHOQ[GI3B;FIJSAKNVEPOHIBQ34GNRAE'BR42J;QGFI SORWT;EOIH; OKAY I LOVE THIS I WANNA CRY THANK YOU SO MUCH I HAVE DERIVED SO MUCH SEROTONIN ONLY READING THIS, OH GOD IM SO SORRY BUT LEMME TELL YA THAT AFTER MY FIRST PLAYTHROUGH ILL HOMBREW THE SHIT OUT OF THE NPC AND THE MAGICAL REALISM THINGIES AAAAAAAAAAAH THNAK YOU FOR THIS SYSTEM LIKE SO MUCH
LIKE IM HELLA DISABLE AND AND AND KEEPING TRACK OF OTHER THINGS LIKE MOVES AND OHTER THINGS FROM MORE COMPLEX RULES HEAVY ONES MAKE ME HATE MYSELF BUT I ACTUALLY CAN SEE ME PLAYING THIS LIKE UNTIL I FILL THE FUCKING JOURNAL AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH thank you QuQ
omg im so so glad you like it!!! it's not my own original system, it's built off an SRD called for truth's sake by h moon. which means there are other settings you can explore with it :D you can check out the other games made with this system here!! https://itch.io/c/3290711/for-truths-sake
of the original settings by h moon, i've played werewolf neighborhood and urban witches and they were both super fun ^^
i hope you get so much enjoyment out of these games!! the whole collection is really great